art or mental illness

no wonder so many out there would send you straight to a psychiatrist the moment you dare to express your thoughts in writing/art - perhaps they would remove all poetry/art/literature to the realms of mental illness and leave the world with only cold hard scientific facts pictures of charts on walls - surely the written word has always been a therapy of survival against this sort of world - there's a danger of stigmatizing writing/art and repressing people even further afraid of revealing some terrible truth about themselves